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The holidays are here and the citizens of Azeroth are celebrating the occasion with festive decorations and winter time activities. Keep an eye out for some fun and exciting surprises throughout the world!

In the vast gray of Desolace lies the earthen tomb of Zaetar, fallen Keeper of the Grove and son of Cenarius. Zaetar rejected his Keeper heritage when he joined with the princess of the chaotic earth elementals, Theradras. Their unholy union gave birth to the misshapen and cursed centaur, who promptly slew their father for his part in their misbegotten creation. Fearful of Cenarius' wrath, the grief-stricken Theradras sequestered her dead lover's body in her secret sanctuary, the Crystal Caverns of Therramok, where she watches over him to this day. Travelers who come to Desolace have little trouble spotting Zaetar's tomb, for the blessing of nature that permeates his being transformed his resting place into a verdant paradise of flora and tranquil pools. Today, this tomb is now trodden by the hooves of Zaetar's children, who have claimed this great cavern as their sacred stronghold Maraudon.

Maraudon, a level 40-49 dungeon in Desolace, is now open and ready for business

There are now interface options that let you not display your helm and/or cloak on your character. These options will allow a player to wear a cloak or helm, but not have it show up in the game world. The check boxes to control this functionality are in the Options menu under "Interface Options."

Players will now receive credit for killing a monster even if they die during battle.

Players will now be able to purchase and train mounts from other races in their faction. However, you will first need to obtain "Exalted" reputation status with that race in order to do so. Mounts of the opposing faction are not available for purchase.

A "Looking for Group" channel has been added. Additional improvements in looking for group functionality will be added in future patches.

Daze chance has been reduced in degrees depending on the level of the monster versus the level of the player. Thus, a monster will have a better chance to Daze a player equal in level than it would Dazing a player five levels higher.

If you die in Molten Core, you will now be able to retrieve your corpse at the Blackrock Depths instance line.

Several instance bosses and sub-bosses have had their levels slightly lowered.

Giant Clams in the Vile Reef now drop Blue Pearls.

Spell Reflection no longer reflects abilities.

You can initiate a trade by dropping money onto a player.

You can no longer select targets while under the effects of charm.

Most non-elite creatures in non-instanced areas of the world have had their hit points slightly increased starting from level 20.

Messages in the chat window provide feedback when you are getting drunk or sober.

Skill gain messages will no longer appear for auto-ranking class skills when you gain a level.

Training costs for all classes are in the process of being rebalanced. For this patch, training costs have been adjusted for the Rogue and Warlock classes and we will be making similar adjustments to all classes in the future.

Gurubashi Arena - The arena in Stranglethorn Vale has been changed so that free-for-all PvP will only take place on the floor of the arena, and no longer in the stands or on the entrance ramp. Please keep in mind that on PvP realms, members of the opposite faction can still attack you anywhere in the arena because Stranglethorn Vale is a contested area.

Many Stranglethorn Vale quests had their experience rewards changed to be more in line with the difficulty of the quests. Some Stranglethorn Vale quests were also increased in difficulty, due to increased kill requirements or balance changes to the quest target creatures. The Green Hills of Stranglethorn and Big Game Hunter quests also now reward different items upon completion.

Two new quests added to Desolace involving the Kodo Caravan.

Number of centaur required to kill to unleash Warlord Krom'zar in the Barrens Counterattack! quest has been reduced to 20.

Time limit for the Counterattack! quest has been increased to 20 minutes.

Thazz'ril's Pick is now easier to spot.

Bloodfury quest in Stonetalon Mountains is now marked elite.

Catch of the Day quest in Desolace now requires 2 Bloodfish instead of the previous 5.

New quest rewards added to the Allegiance to the Old Gods quest in Ashenvale.

Wildhunter Cloak reward item from the Ashenvale Hunt quest has been improved.

Vagash in Dun Morogh now properly shows his Elite status.

The Encrusted Tail Fin quest item now only drops off the Saltscale Murlocs in Stranglethorn.

The Bloodfury Ripper's Remains quest item now only drops off the Bloodfury Ripper in Stonetalon Mountain.

The Blueleaf Tubers requirement of the Barrens' Blueleaf Tuber quest was decreased to 6.

Quest text for the Elemental War quest is changed. It no longer implies that a choice of rewards is available.

The Summoning Shadra quest level has been increased from 50 to 55, to reflect the level of Shadra.

Fixed the problem that was causing Mikhail in Menethil Harbor to become inactive after someone failed The Missing Diplomat quest.

Besseleth and Arikara now have statistics appropriate to their status as elite creatures.

The vertex and pixel shader based graphic options have been reactivated on certain combinations of drivers and GPU hardware. As Apple releases future improvements to drivers we will continue to re-test and re-activate features on a case by case basis. A more detailed list of which driver/hardware combinations are enabled for shader capabilities, along with any known bugs will be posted on the Tech Support forum. Further optimization work on the client is ongoing, and we welcome your feedback at wowmacteam123@blizzard.com.

When a player breaks the surface of the water going up (i.e. heading out of the water), the camera will move to the above-water position regardless of whether or not the player is holding down the right mouse button.

The visual effect for unlearning talents will happen after you accept the dialog instead of immediately.

A bug with bandages has been fixed. Previously, only the lowest rank bandage (Linen Bandage) was working correctly in that it brought up a channeling bar and required you to remain still while bandaging. All of the other bandage types (Heavy Linen through Heavy Runecloth) were working incorrectly, but have been fixed to operate the same way that Linen Bandages do.

Cenarion Vindicators no longer summon Forces of Nature as quickly.

Severed Dreamers no longer summon Nightmares as quickly.

Several elite creatures that were missing their elite tags have been fixed.

Will of the Forsaken is no longer grayed out on the action bar while you are fleeing.

The Emerald Dragon Whelp will assist you when summoned.

Aquatic creatures will no longer eventually teleport to you if you harass them from land.

Undead players will no longer be invisible when they first log in after watching the intro cinematic.

Fixed the rotating animations of the crystals in Un'Goro Crater.

Reginald Windsor's yell can be heard during The Great Masquerade.

Kodos in the Barrens will no longer stomp incessantly while in combat.

The Ward of Laze is now summoned at a more appropriate level, instead of level one.

Some elite creatures in outdoor areas of the world had higher than normal experience modifiers, and were corrected to award the proper amount of experience.

Rare creatures in many of the higher level outdoor zones will now use their appropriate combat abilities.

Autoloot has been fixed to work with skinning.

Fixed durability display on vendor buyback items.

Some creatures in the outdoor world had much less armor than intended. This has been corrected.

A bug causing war stomp to not affect some targets within melee range has been fixed.